Fast alignment of a complex tracking detector using advanced track models

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 182, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1760-1763

  Blobel, Volker ^a   Kleinwort, Claus ^b   Meier, Frank ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alignment; Broken Lines; Millepede; Particle tracking detectors; Solid state detectors

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; BROKEN LINES; COMPACT MUON SOLENOIDS; DETECTOR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL TREATMENTS; MILLEPEDE; MULTIPLE COULOMB SCATTERINGS; PARTICLE TRACKING DETECTORS; SOLID-STATE DETECTORS; TRACKING DETECTORS;

ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT; CHARGED PARTICLES; DETECTORS; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; SOLENOIDS;

SILICON DETECTORS;

EID: 79958121253     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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